How To Save 32000 Lives Each Year: Replace Male Doctors With Female Ones

Doctors from Harvard have an intriguing suggestion for saving 32,000 lives each year: Make sure all senior citizens who wind up in the hospital are treated by female doctor...

Not Just A Hiss Tale

The Pratap household in Ichhapyari Naagin is beginning to feel like a snake pit. With Ichha, the mild mannered form shifting snake being forced to bare her fangs by Amrita/...

Curtains To Fall On Patna Film Festival Today

PATNA: Intense cold failed to deter cine lovers from thronging the two venues of Patna Film Festival - Regent Cinema and Rabindra Bhawan - in the last six days. The weeklon...

Pesticides Stop Bees Buzzing And Releasing Pollen, Says Study

The world’s most widely used insecticides harm the ability of bees to vibrate flowers and shake out the pollen to fertilise crops, according to preliminary results fr...

Rights In Education

It has been a little over seven years that one of the most comprehensive and radical education measures in modern history was introduced -- the Right of Children to Free an...

Admit RTE kids, school not a money-making venture: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court Monday said a school was not a commercial venture, while coming down heavily on an institute that refused to grant admissions to students from the eco...

A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050

The term “snowball effect” is an unfortunate way to describe climate change, but a new study is predicting just that.

Climate scientists war...

'This Is a New Frontier': The Global Movement Working to Make Courts Feminist

When a sentence of six months' probation was handed down in the case of Brock Turner, the 20-year college Stanford University swimming star who assaulted an unconscious wom...

Two-thirds of Australians think reef crisis is 'national emergency' – poll

More than two-thirds of Australians think the condition of the Great Barrier Reef should be declared a “national emergency” and support much stronger measures t...